Volume 27

Number 4

Spring

2023

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Articles

Crisis and Credit Allocation: The Effect of Ideology on Monetary Policy during the Great Depression and the Great Recession

James L. Caton

The View of Knowledge: An Institutional Theory of Differences in Educational Quality

Magnus Henrekson, Johan Wennström

Unintended Consequences: A Critical Review of Child Support Enforcement

Clifford F. Thies, John Winn

The Creation of Knowledge in Society: Waste Defined by Property and Exchange

Art Carden, Rosolino A. Candela

Power to the People?: Lobbying for Labor Rights in Brazil’s National Constituent Assembly

Gabriel F. Benzecry

Instilling Duties above Instilling Rights: Two Features of Adam Smith’s Talk of Justice and Liberty

Daniel B. Klein

The Bright and Shiny Soul of Geoffrey Brennan (1944–2022)

Michael C. Munger

Reflections

How to Run Wars: A Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite

Christopher J. Coyne, Abigail R. Hall

Book Reviews

Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity

By Claudia Goldin
Reviewed by
Price V. Fishback

Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us

By Russ Roberts
Reviewed by
Michael C. Munger

The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy

By Christopher Leonard
Reviewed by
Lawrence H. White

Defending Liberty: Essays in Honor of David Gordon

Edited by Douglas B. Rasmussen and Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
Reviewed by
Walter E. Block

The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War

By Nicholas Mulder
Reviewed by
Christopher J. Coyne

Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners around the World

By Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross
Reviewed by
Mitchell Earl

The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization

By Peter Zeihan
Reviewed by
Robert Gmeiner

Generation Gap: Why Baby Boomers Still Dominate American Politics and Culture

By Kevin Munger
Reviewed by
Randall G. Holcombe

The Work of the Future: Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines

By David Autor, David A. Mindell, and Elisabeth B. Reynolds
Reviewed by
Andre Mouton

The Soul of Classical Political Economy: James Buchanan from the Archives

Edited by Peter Boettke and Alain Marciano
Reviewed by
Michael C. Munger

Capitalism for Realists: Virtues and Vices of the Modern Economy

By Tibor Rutar
Reviewed by
Michael C. Munger

Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World

By Scott Reynolds Nelson
Reviewed by
Patrick Newman

The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development

By Yuhua Wang
Reviewed by
Hilton L. Root

Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism

By Glory M. Liu
Reviewed by
Marcus Shera

FDR’s Gambit: The Court Packing Fight and the Rise of Legal Liberalism

By Laura Kalman
Reviewed by
William F. Shughart II

The Myth of American Inequality

By Phil Gramm, Robert Ekelund and John Early
Reviewed by
Clifford F. Thies

Electrify: An Optimist’s Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future

By Saul Griffith
Reviewed by
Robert M. Whaples

Climate Future: Averting and Adapting to Climate Change

By Robert S. Pindyck
Reviewed by
Robert M. Whaples

Fragile Futures: The Uncertain Economics of Disasters, Pandemics, and Climate Change

By Vito Tanzi
Reviewed by
Robert M. Whaples

Commodities as an Asset Class: Essays on Inflation, the Paradox of Gold and the Impact of Crypto

By Alan G. Futerman and Ivo A. Sarjanovic
Reviewed by
Leonidas Zelmanovitz

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